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robin stethem

An immersive exhibition in the Museum of Other Realities
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Museum of Other Realities

social vr, other people

i started the museum of other realities as a social space for creatives prototyping new forms of cultural production. the museum was the official virtual platform for Cannes xr, tribeca, newimages, and viff immersed. mor was also a finalist for immersive reality technical achievement at the d.i.c.e. awards.

An illustration of two small groups of connected circles, joined by one circle that belongs to both
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Prosocial Design

design lab, small groups

A design lab for healthier social spaces, co-founded with Andy Moore. We build small research vehicles, like VanChat, to test how timing, size, and lightness affect trust and talk.

An illustration of a page of text turning into a sound wave
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Reads

text, a borrowed voice

Bring a story, an essay or a letter, and hear it read in the voice of someone you love. With their permission, a short recording becomes a voice in your private library.

An illustration of three vertical video frames on a timeline, the middle one marked for review
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Shortform Bandit

local studio software

Human-directed video production built around reusable content profiles. Plan, review, and assemble short-form video in a local studio.

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Mysterious Modular Device

seven modules, one spare part

It comes in pieces. You assemble it yourself. You aren't quite sure what all the pieces do.

An illustration of design tokens: color swatches, type, spacing, and component shapes
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Design System

tokens, components, fixtures

A workbench for exploring my apps' design tokens, components, and screen fixtures, alongside independent reference studies.

The blue, yellow, orange, and green Fischer Price Revolutionary Device
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Fischer Price Revolutionary Device

speculative object

A toy-like speculative design object about the risks designers take when they make new technology feel familiar, from physical and environmental harms to a culture of yearly upgrades.

A snowy floating island city with skyscrapers, a mountain waterfall, and a winding river — Market River, October 23 closing snapshot
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Market River

the stock market, three times a day

Generative art driven by live stock market data. At the open, midday, and close, market and volatility moods become a river landscape through versioned templates, not ad-hoc prompts. Every image traces back to the market snapshot that made it. One visual style, systematically varied.

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Learning Machines

pinned mechanics, small numbers

Small experiments for understanding what happens inside a model.

Great Circle's loop planner: a circle over a city street grid by the water
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Great Circle

a circle, roads permitting

A cycling loop planner: pick a start point and distance, get a near-circular route, and export it as GPX for your bike computer.

Verbosele level one with the word THREE ready to guess
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Verbosele

five rounds, eighteen lives, one mom

Wordle with levels. Solve words from 5 to 9 letters across five rounds on one shared pool of 18 lives, with optional thesaurus hints. Made for my mom.

Focus Speed Reader on a phone showing the word one, its middle letter highlighted
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Focus Speed Reader

one word at a time

A browser speed reader for EPUBs and plain text. Words flash one at a time at the WPM you choose, and your library stays on your device.

A phone screen showing a spoon on a black background
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The Spoon App

phone, mouth

Use your phone as a spoon. It works best on a phone you can fit in your mouth.